Head told Collider: "When it's comedy like this, which is witty and sassy, and based on real emotions and the messiness of real life, I think it basically translates the same.

"There are human emotions involved. With both the English show and the pilot of this [remake], you want to know what happens to these people's lives."

Head added that NBC's Free Agents, which stars Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn, will use the UK series as a "starting point".

"It's a bouncing off place, in the same way that [the two leads] waking up in bed together is the starting place for the show," he explained. "It's where we go from there which makes it an interesting journey."

The former Buffy star also claimed that reprising his role as Stephen had been a "no-brainer".

"[The remake has] got a great soul and a great heart to it," he said. "You don't often get scripts like this."